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• Commented on Canadian think-tank spends tax dollars to plagiarize and regurgitate talking points from US entertainment lobby group
  and all this while the govt is threatening funding to public radio in Canada......
• Commented on Plagiarising Canadian think tank who used tax dollars to shill for Big Content refuses to back down
  Once again - great reporting. Have not heard of this story until now....
• Favorited Kid keeping a lending library of banned books in <s>his</s> her locker on Boing Boing
• Commented on Milton Bradley Bump Ball, circa 1969
  I find it disturbing how degraded and worn the bumps on this ball are. What have they been DOING with this ball?...
• Favorited RunPee: when you should leave the movie and have a wee? on Boing Boing
• Commented on Give yourself horse legs
  So, what, you BB readers are not also Cracked readers? That must be why you're so woefully ignorant of Boytaur (back onto the centaur love theme, here) http://www.cracked.com/article_15250_p2.html...
• Commented on Beer TV commercial featuring a Moog, c. 1970s
  #2/kdfani I'm laughing, but yeah! torley - neat link...
• Commented on Crocheted Mario blanket
  this is great! (good point,though, hanglyman)...
• Commented on Ayahuasca experience
  Takuan, I don't know about ayahuasca, but LSD was reported to have a curative effect on alcohlism in some research of the 1960s - some other contemporary resarch found no effect, though. Then a ban was placed on the use...
• Commented on Pneumatic tube-based systems -- the real series of tubes
  I think this style of presentation is called pecha kucha. The Robarts library at the University of Toronto has all the gear for pneumatic tube messages, automatic tracks for boxes of books, etc. It's actually a sad sight, as it...
• Commented on Tuxedomoon: No Tears for the Creatures of the Night
  I wonder if there was any cross pollination with the Talking Heads, because it sounds like they were contemporary and the lead vocals sound a lot like Byrne's to me. Apparently the Talking Heads opened for the Ramones in 75....
• Favorited German retro-futuristic group-dancing on Boing Boing
• Favorited Snatch on Boing Boing
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• Favorited Dramatic readings of message-board posts about atheism from Christian fundamentalist message boards on Boing Boing
• Commented on Dramatic readings of message-board posts about atheism from Christian fundamentalist message boards
  There's no way to confess that you find this utterly hilarious and not offend anyone, is there? damn damn...
• Commented on Snatch
  I do not think Richard Metzger should be a guest blogger on Boing Boing. He should be an always blogger on Boing Boing. He is the salt....
• Commented on Congress considers inventory of spectrum use in America
  Hmm... I wonder if it could have anything to do with the accidental sale of the B-52 bomber radar spectrum at last year's bandwith auction, as reported on dailytech: http://www.dailytech.com/B2+Bomber+Radar+Spectrum+Accidentally+Sold+Adds+to+Military+Bandwidth+Woes/article14649.htm Maybe that's why they think they need an inventory all...
• Commented on Real Money Trading game design, my notes from today's Game Developers' Conference
  I don't know why paying real money for a predetermined item in a video game seems so impossibly lame to me. There's just a definite no go zone there. But for some reason, I wouldn't have such a problem with...
• Commented on Partial list of corporate lickspittles who are allowed to know what's in the secret copyright treaty the Obama administration claims is a matter of "national security"
  great reporting - this article really cuts through the crap...
• Commented on Obama administration: releasing details of secret copyright treaty endangers "national security"
  The DMCA - wasn't that Clinton's administration? Trillions in war debt, wasn't that the Republicans? However, I guess party politics aren't really the issue here. The real shocker is the degree of crappiness of proposed intellectual property law - it...
• Commented on Terrific special effects reel by 12-year-old
  #91 - quite so (would you pass the Grey Poupon?)...
• Commented on IT versus users: a war that everyone loses
  ahh - I see I should have read farther. And props to the golden few - the IT people who make things possible, rather than impossible (I have met some!)....
• Commented on IT versus users: a war that everyone loses
  I got up to comment 69 and didn't see one comment where anyone talked about why users might be looking for alternate solutions. It really depends how ridiculously outmoded your setup is, probably nowhere near as bad as the ones...
• Commented on Turtle sex with a shoe
  After watching that video and its companion piece at #3, how could anyone believe in benevolent God?...
• Commented on Terrific special effects reel by 12-year-old
  I know nothing about special effects, and I only made a picture of a turtle in my (can't recall if it was-) Logo or Basic days. I enjoyed his scornful looks most of all. Wylkyn, please thank your daughter for...
• Commented on How kids in England are smeared in the press, and what to do about it
  I'm on the fence about spanking. I've known good parents who've spanked, and good parents who never spanked. My mother spanked me and she also loved the crap out of me. A large part of my ability to go far...
• Commented on How kids in England are smeared in the press, and what to do about it
  Well, Takuan, the words of praise I can offer are that this article motivated me to read the UN convention on the rights of the child, and to briefly scan the pamphlet by the Children's Rights Alliance. So I thank...
• Commented on How kids in England are smeared in the press, and what to do about it
  and I wouldn't be hurt if you wanted to take these last comments down, as they really were just intended for Antinous...
• Commented on How kids in England are smeared in the press, and what to do about it
  well, Takuan, usually bb censors any comments like the one I made above, so I assumed antinous would just read it and decide what he/she thought. the comment I was talking about was at #30. I wasn't saying Antinous was...